We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles

As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.